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title: "I do not bring you a message from Henry of Brunswick, but from God,… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: "I do not bring you a message from Henry of Brunswick, but from God," said Alice, slowly and solemnly. " Who acts: Alice. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 32

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"I do not bring you a message from Henry of Brunswick, but from God," said Alice, slowly and solemnly. "

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** not bring, say · **To what, where:** message, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:20:32
# text = "I do not bring you a message from Henry of Brunswick, but from God," said Alice, slowly and solemnly. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Brunswick	Brunswick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	RB	_	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bring** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Alice | a message | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination message=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | from God; slowly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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